If paywalled here's the best bits re RF:

“Terrible hair,” says David Bailey, handing me the contact sheet from a portrait of Princess Diana. “You know, from the hairspray – solid as a plastic dummy.” To be fair, it was the 1980s and, anyway, lavish use of Elnett probably saved Diana from injury: during the shoot, Bailey’s assistant dropped a light on her head.

“I thought, oh F---!” says Bailey, though the Princess was remarkably understanding, and made a point of reassuring the girl afterwards. “She said: ‘Don’t think about it; it was a terrible accident’. I told her she had been very magnanimous – that’s right, because she asked me what magnanimous meant.”

You may recognise the shoot in question. An outtake from it was published widely in March, having been released for the first time in an exhibition of Royal photography at Kensington Palace. I say widely, though Bailey claims not to know a thing about it. I wait while he upbraids his assistants.

“This one,” he says, tapping a different shot, “is probably where I was trying to loosen her up.” The Princess is smiling, sweetly goofy. “Everything she is doing here is what I told her to do, though if I want to make them laugh, I tell them something funny. I don’t say ‘F---ing laugh’.”

One hopes he said nothing of the kind to the Queen, when she sat for him in 2014, but his gambit that time was to ask if “the jewels” were real.

“I said: ‘I bet that cost a few bob, girl’.”

“You called her ‘girl’?”

“It just came out. I call everyone ‘girl’. But she was girlish. Made a real effort. We had a laugh. Beautiful skin, the Queen.”